It will work but needs a modification for the mod_rewrite. If mod_rewrite isn't already turned on, then you need to handle that first. Make a copy of your lighttpd.conf (just for worst case) and enable mod_rewrite in the modules section:

PHP Code:

server.modules = (# ...other modules go here

"mod_rewrite",)

Within the same file you need to find the mod_rewrite section and add the rewrite rules for vB5:

PHP Code:

url.rewrite = (# other rewrite rules go here

" here the re-write rules for vBulletin 5 Connect",)

Restart lighttpd so the changes can take effect.

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10X but all VB5 is very strange, in admicp has many unusable options, for example Use Legacy (Vertical) Postbit Template and many others.
If this options not work, please remove them from adminCP, for all administrator this is great discomfort.

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You should try using a UTF-8 character set instead of the subset Windows-1256. The browser should be able to render the URL correctly in the address bar then. However there is no available standard for placing Arabic characters in a URL without encoding them. If you know of such a standard, creating an Improvement Request JIRA is the way to go.

vBulletin 5 has friendly URLs by default. Old style URLs from vB3 and vB4 are not available in vB5 and never will be, as the file structure is entirely different.
Old URLs will redirect to new ones in vB5 though.

We currently have a an active vBulletin 3.8 forum and are in the process of upgrading to VB5. We also had VBSEO installed to re-write the URLS. There are many internal links and we don't want these to...